Daily Archives: 27 October 2010

How to write an editorial when not “jet-lagged”

If “jetlag” can prevent a mighty editor from noticing that a tiger has slept with a tornado and their baby has married an earthquake in the “Indian State of Tamil Nadu”, what must it be for lesser editors* in other Indian states? Pradyuman Maheshwari, the group chief editor of the industry journal Impact (owned by…

The ‘Lone Hindu’ gets it from M.J. Akbar’s paper

Dileep Padgaonkar, The Times of India’s former editor who once said he held the second-most important job in the country, has been named one of three interlocutors in Kashmir by the UPA government. However, the usually softspoken Francophile has been hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons in his new job, even as he…